NUHDSS-Marital status history - 2007-2008

KENYA, 2007 - 2008
Nairobi Urban Health & Demographic Surveillance System

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

how the marriage began (mhs_modemarr)

Data file: maritalstatushistoryspouse_anon

Overview

vald 21619

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How did you get into the union or start living together with (NAME in Q 3.7)? Was it through 1=religious ceremony, or 2=civil registration only,or 3= customary or traditional marriage only or 4= just living together?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	religious ceremony	1416	6.5%
2	civil registration only	12	0.1%
3	customary/traditional marriage only	14860	68.7%
4	cohabiting/just living together	5328	24.6%
6	other	0	0%
7	refused	0	0%
8	don't know	0	0%
9	NIU (not in universe)	0	0%
9999995	missing:impute	3	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

Question post text

IF 1 OR 2 SKIP TO Q 3.10

Interviewer instructions

Description

Text

How the marriage began.

Universe

All the DSS households that had a residents aged 12+ years.